Revolving grate for stove-ovens.



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Patented August 11, 1903.

UNITED STATESPATRNT OFFICE.

ISAAC SANFORD, or NAUGATUCK, CONNECTICUT, AssIGNOR' TO JENNIE L.

`MOORE AND HARVEY MOORE, or NAUGATUCK, CONNECTICUT.l

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Be it known thatI, ISAAC SANFORD, a citizen of the 4United `States,. residing at" Nauga-V tuck, in the county of New `Haven Aand State of Connecticut, have invented a newand use-7- :t'ul Revolving Grate for Stove-Ovens, Vot' which.

theffollowing is a specification. The invention relates toa4 revolving grate forstove-ovens. f

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of grates for stoveovens and to provide a simple, inexpensive,

and eiicient device adapted to be readily ap plied to the oven of an ordinary cookingstove and capable of enabling the position of theeentente thereof te be readily shift-ener changed without removing the contents or4 any portion of the same from the oven.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device ot' this character adapted to increase the capacity of ovens l by providing a series of rotary supportsor grates `for the reception of the articles to `be cooked and capable of lessening the labor of cooking and of"y decreasingthe expense by enabling a large number of dishes to be simultaneously cooked. p The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated4 in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of astove provided with a rotary grate Y constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view.

Fig. 3'is a vertical sectional view.

ing a threaded upper end 3 for the reception` of a thumb-nut 4, which is adapted to engage the top of an oven, whereby thecircular base is firmly held against the bottom ofthe same. The base is preferably hollow, as shown in Fig. 3; but it` maybe of anyother desired constructionhand `it is provided at its upper face witha conical bearing portion 5, located at the lower end of the spindle 1. The spind le 1 is adapted to receive a plurality of rotary grates or supports 6, consisting of open disks providedwith apertures, as illustrated in Figs. l and 2 of the drawings, to permit the .passage Oibe-at, and these rotary gratesor supports may-be made ot any desired contig- -urati0n, as will be readily apparent. Each `rotarygrate or support is provided `with a tube 7, extending upward fron the `grate or support andpas'sing through a central opening of the same and secured ,at its lower end to a plate 8. The plate 8 is arranged at the lower face of the gratie or support and is riveted or Otherwise secured to` the same;` but the tube, which may be of any desired length, can be formed integral with the grate or support, if desired. The vertical tube spaces the supports or weights from each other, and any desired number of rotary gratos or su pports may be used. ings two rotary grates or supports are shown for convenience ot illustration, but in practice Vthree will preferably be employed, as illustrated in Fig. 3 of the drawings;l but any desired number may be used to adapt the device tothecharacter of the oven in which it is employed. i

. The device is readily mounted in an oven by simply adjusting the clamping-nut until the base and the said nut rigidly engage the top and bottom of the oven.

The rotary gratos or supports are adapted to receive the articles to be cooked, and a number of different dishes may be simultaneously cooked, and the same may be readily shifted from one portion of the oven to another by simply rotating the disks or supports and without removing the contents of the oven or any portion of the same. This will greatly lessen the labor of cooking and will decrease the expense by permitting a larger number of articles to be simultaneously cooked and readily handled than heretotore.

It will be seen that the device is exceedingly simple and inexpensive in construction, that it is adapted to be readily applied to a stove, and that the rotary supports may be `readily operated to shift the contents of the oven from one portion of the same to another part thereof. i

1. A stove attachment havinga spindle pro- In Fig. l of the draw- IOC 3. In a device of the class described, the combination with a stove having an oven, of

a base provided with an upwardly-extending thimble having a threaded upper end, a Series of rotary grates arranged on the spindle, and a clamping-nut mounted on the threaded portion of the spindle and engaging the top of the oven, substantially as described.

4. A device of the class described comprising a base having'a conical portion, a spindle extending upward therefrom, means mounted on the upper end of the spindle for engaging the top of an oven, a plurality of rotary grates or supports having apertures, and spacing-tubes extending through the apertures of the grates or supports and having plates secured to the lower face of the same, substan tially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

ISAAC SANFORD.

Witnesses: i

WALLACE H. CAMP, Mrs. HARVEY MOORE. 

